Ten people have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs following a police operation which saw armed officers in the city centre last night.

Officers executed a warrant at an address in Sandown Road, Glenfield, at around 8.55pm yesterday. An amount of suspected class A drugs were recovered from the address.

One man, aged 24, from Leicester, and two women, one aged 25, from Leicester, and another aged 30, from Charnwood, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

In addition to this, three vehicles were stopped in the area of Highcross Street and Freeschool Lane, near Highcross, in the city centre at around 10.15pm.

Armed police at the scene of an incident in Highcross Street Leicester (Image: Leicester Mercury)

Following the vehicles being stopped, seven men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A drugs. One of the men is aged 17, two aged 18, two aged 20, one aged 22, and one aged 23. All the men are from Leicester.

A spokesperson for Leicestershire Police said: "In the interests of officer and public safety, armed officers were deployed to the incident in the city centre.

"All 10 people currently remain in police custody."

Eyewitnesses said they saw around 11 police vehicles in Highcross Street at about 11pm.

One eyewitness said that ambulances were also at the scene. We are awaiting confirmation on this.